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Hurricane Francine Knocks Energy Infrastructure Offline — Not Clean Energy Infrastructure

September 16, 2024 admin clean power, energy resilience, energy security, Extreme weather, Fossil Fuels, hurricanes, natural gas, Oil, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 03:56:09 +0000

Hurricanes can massively disrupt energy infrastructure, and can leave people without power for hours or days. The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) announced today a vast array of energy infrastructure that has been knocked offline by Hurricane Francine. But one thing stood out to me: none of this was clean … [continued]

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Oil Prices Slide, Partly Due to Weakened Demand in China

September 15, 2024 admin China, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, Fossil Fuels, Oil, oil prices

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 00:29:50 +0000

I saw an interesting headline this week regarding an industry I don’t closely follow, the oil industry. Yes, we write daily about cutting oil use by driving electric vehicles. However, I don’t follow what’s happening in the oil industry or trends in the price of oil. But “Oil prices slide … [continued]

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Why Is “Fracking” Such A Swear Word In The US Presidential Race?

September 14, 2024 admin carbon emissions, climate change, Energy, events, Fossil Fuels, policy & politics

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 00:14:53 +0000

Politics is such a nasty game. While the two major US Presidential candidates had many topics about which to debate on Tuesday night, the climate crisis was the one most pressing on many of our minds. Unfortunately, it did not receive the attention it deserved. When the single question about … [continued]

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Racism In The Oil & Gas Industry?

September 14, 2024 admin air quality, climate change, Electric vehicles, Fossil Fuels, HEALTH, louisana, RACISM, texas

Credit to Author: Jake Richardson| Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2024 22:55:35 +0000

Texas oil tycoon H.L. Hunt was one of the richest men in America. According to some online sources, he was allegedly a white supremacist or supported white supremacy. H.L. Hunt is one of the Texas oil billionaires mentioned here. “On a scale not always appreciated, the Texas oil billionaires nurtured the … [continued]

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Germany Responds to Donald Trump’s Lies About German Electricity Grid

September 14, 2024 admin clean power, Coal, Fossil Fuels, natural gas, policy & politics, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2024 16:54:11 +0000

Germany may not have liked being pulled into Donald Trump’s closing arguments at the debate last night, or maybe it did, but in either case, the country has responded. In particular, the German Foreign Office took to X to correct the record. As I wrote earlier today, in his closing … [continued]

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Starmer Government Is Leading UK Away From Its Oil Addiction

September 14, 2024 admin clean power, equinor, Fossil Fuels, greenpeace, kier sharmer, labour party, natural gas, North Sea, Oil, oil and gas exploration, policy & politics, shell, Solar energy, uk, wind energy

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2024 15:44:26 +0000

The new UK government has announced it will not oppose legal appeals that seek to halt oil and gas exploration in the North Sea.

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On Fake Protest — Is The Extinction Rebellion … A Front For The Fossil Industries?

September 13, 2024 admin batteries, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, extinction rebellion, Fossil Fuels, lithium-ion batteries, mass transit / public transit, Oil, policy & politics

Credit to Author: Editorial Staff| Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 20:54:21 +0000

We’ve all seen the headlines, the antics, and the absurd protests that purport to raise awareness of the climate crisis by a group known as the Extinction Rebellion. They glue themselves to art. They disrupt billiards and tennis tournaments. I had sort of just thought of them as a little … [continued]

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Average State Tax Rates for Retail Gasoline and Diesel Fuel Flat Since January 2024

August 26, 2024 admin Fossil Fuels, gas prices, market research, Oil, research, Taxes

Credit to Author: US Energy Information Administration| Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2024 14:09:05 +0000

As of July 1, 2024, state taxes and fees on gasoline and diesel fuel averaged $0.33 per gallon (gal) of gasoline and $0.35/gal of diesel fuel, according to our federal and state motor fuel taxes table. Since January 2024, both the gasoline and diesel average taxes have remained nearly flat, increasing … [continued]

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US Election 2024: Democratic Climate Platform Is Okay For 2020, But It’s 2024

August 24, 2024 admin air quality, carbon emissions, China, clean power, clean transport, climate change, Democratic Party, democratic platform, dnc, Energy, energy efficiency, Energy Storage, events, Fossil Fuels, green economy, HEALTH, inflation reduction act of 2022., Joe Biden, kamala harris, policy & politics, renewable energy, tim walz, us election 2024, US Elections, usa

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2024 17:56:40 +0000

With the release of the 2024 Democratic platform is a great opportunity to more finely determine how the Democratic party is considering climate action compared to other agenda items.

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What Will The End Of Fossil Fuels Be Like?

August 23, 2024 admin clean transport, economic research, economics, Fossil Fuels

Credit to Author: George Harvey| Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2024 16:05:46 +0000

I recently came across a somewhat old spreadsheet from the U.S. Department of Energy, “Public Retail Gasoline Stations by State and Year,” which covered data from 1996 to 2012 (xlsx file found HERE). It was clear that the numbers in it were not precisely accurate, but there was something very … [continued]

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